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Live in Scotland.
Played rugby to high standard. Played 10, 12 and 13.

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What a tool. Hope Lancaster continues to overlook him. When you consider the NZ squad ethos of no dickheads which has helped them become number one in the world, it's no surprise Ashton gets overlooked for England.

Based on this performane, I think it might be a long campaign for us Scots this year. We've still got some time to turn things around and we've got some good players but Johnson needs to rethink some positions. We need to sort the backrow - play Brown at 6 where he's best, start with Beattie rather than the one dimensional and completely useless Dave Denton who never passes, never breaks a tackle and does little else around the pitch, and start a genuine openside at 7 (Fusaro, Barclay or Rennie). Ford needs to go at hooker and hopefully Matt Scott will be fit to play 12 as he's becoming a really good player and his distribution will work nicely alongside Weir's kicking game. Laidlaw should be dropped for Cusiter who adds more urgency and speed of distribution. Hopefully if they sort the set piece and get some of the key players motoring we'll at least be competitive and give ourselves a fighting chance of picking up a win or two.

I was taught similar things in Scotland (not eye gouging, though). Anything to help get a physical advantage over the opposition was encouraged and often worked. And there were no afters, as described above. On some rugby tours in France at school level games always descended into mass brawls. Didn't know if it was because we were a touring team or if that was just normal for them. It seems like it was just normal. We certainly learnt a thing or two after those matches which made us a better team.